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R. A. ANTHONY & W. H. LEWIS.

PHOTOGRAPHIG CAMERA Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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R. A. ANTHONY & W. H. LEWIS. PHOTOGRAPHIG CAMERA.

No. 349,133. tented Sept. 14, 1886.

ATTORNEYS.

-with an imitation of such material.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFEIcE.

RICHARD A. ANTHONY AND \VILLIAM H. LEXVIS, OF NFAV YORK, N. Y., ASSTGNORS TO l H. T. ANTHONY & (10., OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPHlC CAMERA.

1 PECIFEQATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,133, dated September 1%, 1886.

Application filedOctoher20,1885. Serial No, 150,423. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, RICHARD A. ANTHO- NY and WILLIAM H. LEwIs, both of the city, county, and State 01 NewYork, haveinvented a new and Improved Photographic Camera, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View 01' our improved photographic camera, with the apertures of the carrying-case closed. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the photographic camera, showing the apertures 01' the case open with the camera in position for-use, part of the case being broken away to more clearly show the construction. Fig. shows the camera and the carrying-case separated.

Our invention relates to photographic cameras; and it consists in a case in the form of a hand-bag or satchel, for containing, covering, and concealing a photographic camera; also, in apertures for the finder and camera-tube, these apertures being provided with doors, forming, when closed, parts of the walls of the case, and conforming to the general char actor of the case, so that they will not be observable.

The body of the carrying-ease is formed of a box, A, which is open at the bottom, and is covered over its sides, ends, and top with leather, or cloth, or other materialsuch as is used in the manufacture of 11and bagsor A median rib, 13, extends along the top and down the ends of the box A, in the position usually occupied by the frame of a hand bag, to strengthen and stiffen the box.

The rib I3 is made to imitate the frame of a hand-bag, and is provided with a flexible handle, a, attached by its ends to the rib B by means of the rings 1) and straps 0.

Under the handle (a, and midway between its points of attachment to the. rib B, a centrally-apcrtured plate, (I, is secured to the rib B, by means of screws or otherwise, and an aperture, 0, corresponding with the aperture of the plate (I, is formed in the center of the rib B. A screw,f, having a milled head, is in sorted in the aperture of the plate (7 and ol'thc rib B, and screwedinto a nut, g, fastened into the side of the camera 0. and plate (I occupy the place M and imitate the ordinary satchellock.

The camera (l, which may be of ordinary construction, nearly fills the case, suiiicient space being left between the edges of the case at the open side to contain the various keys and levers employed in the operation of the camera.

In one end of the case, opposite the camera tube 1) and finder-lens E, is formed an aperture, 71., through which light is admitted to the camera. The aperture h is closed by a wellfitted door, 17, carrying a portion of the rib B, which is cut away and attached to the door.

The door when closed completes the case at the end, and a clasp, j, such as is commonly used for fastening the frame of a satchel, is e1nployed to hold the door 1? closed, the clasp be ing pivoted to the fixed part of the rib B, and embracing the part of the rib carried by the door.

In the side of the case opposite the reflector 7c, of the finder of the camera, is formed an aperture, Z, which is closed by a hinged door, m,which fits the aperture and closes flushwith the side of the case, of which it forms a part when closed. The door in is provided with a small loop, n, by which it may be opened.

A clasp similar to the clasp j is placed over the rib B at the end of the case remote from the door '5.

\Vhen it is desired to use the camera detached from the case, the camera may be unfastened by unscrewing the screw 1'.

The case is designed to closely imitate a handbag or satchel, so that the user thereof may carry and use the camera contained therein without being noticed.

When the carryingcase is used merely for carrying and concealing the camera, the apertures 7L Z and the doors i In, belonging thereto, may be omitted.

it is obvious that instead of providing a removable camera-box containing the tube and operative parts of the camera, we may arran ge these parts directly in the carrying-case.

The screw 1' Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. In a photographic camera, a case having an aperture in the end thereof, and provided with a door closing into the aperturefiush with the end of the case, and a median rib extending over the top of the case and down its ends, as herein specified.

2. In aphotographic camera. acase of hand bag form having side and end apertures, and doors closing into the apertures flush with the sides of the case, a median rib made in imitation of a hand-bag frame and extending over the top and down the ends of the case, and a handle secured to the median rib at thetop of the case, as herein specified.

3. In a photographic camera, the combination, with a case open at the bottom and having a median rib along the top and down the ends, of a fastening device for retaining a camera-box within the case, as herein specified.

4. The combination, with the camera-box, of a case ofhand-bag form, open at the bottom, and provided with end and side aperturesm'ith doors fitted thereto, and a fastener for retaining the camera-box in the case, substantially as described.

5. In a photographic camera, the combinaend aperture and a door fitted thereto, of a clasp box in the carrying-case, substantially as described.

7.' In a photographic camera, the combina tion, with the case of hand-bag form and camera-box fitted thereto, of a screw passing I through the case and entering the cameraboX for securing the case in the camera-box, as herein specified. I

S. Ihe combination, with the ease formed of a box, A, open at the bottom, and provided with a median rib, B, of a handle, 0, attached to the median rib, and a fastening device for retaining a camera-box in the case, as herein specified.

RICHARD A. ANTHONY; \VILLIAM H. LEXVIS. \Vitnesscs:

EDWARD M. CLARK, E. V. SKINNER. 

